Decumaria

  • Authority

    Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

  • Family

    Hydrangeaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Decumaria

  • Description

    Genus Description - Fls perfect, epigynous, 7–10-merous; sep small; pet oblong, spreading; stamens 20–30; ovary 7–10-locular; style short and thick, with 7–10-lobed stigma; capsule turbinate, strongly many-ribbed, its summit depressed-conic, crowned with the persistent style, splitting longitudinally between the ribs; slender woody vines, climbing by aerial rootlets, with opposite lvs and terminal corymbiform clusters of small white fls. 2, the other in China.